Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soldier of the cities is the cop, I his front line the American ghetto. Harlem, Watts, Roxbury, Hough, Hunters Point, the South Side, Dixie Hills, Bedford-Stuyvesant: these are the battlegrounds whose names are inscribed in rubble and resentment and fear of worse conflagrations to come. Already this year, serious disturbances have broken out in 211 cities and towns. Even when they are quiet, vast areas of the American metropolis today resemble combat zones, volatile, bitter and suspicious...
...past few years, but most of them have not had much success (Exceptions: Washington, 21% of the force; Philadelphia, 20%; Chicago, 17%). Negro policemen are often looked on as Judases when they put on the blue uniform. "More than anything," laments a black patrolman in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant, "I want my people to like me. But they just don't like cops. This suit makes me an enemy to them just like any other...
...Brooklyn's depressed Bedford-Stuyvesant area, the Brooklyn Children's Museum took over a building that had formerly housed a pool hall and an auto showroom, last month set up a neighborhood branch called MUSE. Its exhibits invite participation; there are African drums to pound, African masks that can be worn, and a display of exotic headgear with a sign, "Please...
...talk to us--about school, our jobs, anything. I last saw him in late April. He seemed tired but we talked a bit. Mr. Kennedy was the only politician I knew. Those other guys--Nixon, McCarthy, Rockefeller, Humphrey--I don't know them from nothing. --a black youth from Bedford-Stuyvesant outside St. Patrick's Cathedral last week...
...Columbia University Forum of Conor Cruise O'Brien's "The Counterrevolutionary Reflex," which wearily argues that the United States should not have such a Pavlovian response to communism and revolution, and stops there. The second in particular is Columbia graduate student Samuel Anderson's prose poem, "Mr. Moynihan in Bedford-Stuyvesant." Certainly there are other ways to assert a black identity than by continuing to put down Monynihan. Moynihan's criticism of the American welfare system may still someday make it easier for the growth of a black identity for Negro Americans. One might have hoped that the Journal would...